Wednesday, November 4, 2009

Be a True Builder Once in Your Life


Building Thailand's first Tibetan earth house
Give warm clothes and blankets to the needy

21-23 November 2009
Khadiravana Center, Hua-Hin

The Thousand Stars Foundation (Pandara) invites volunteers to help build Thailand's
first Tibetan house to be used as a retreat/reception house for monks, nuns and lay
practitioners and as a learning place for eastern wisdom.

The Foundation will provide you with tent accommodation, food and drinks for all meals.
During this earth building period we will visit Thai and Karen villagers in the Pala-U waterfall
area and give them warm clothes and blankets (donations are collected at the
foundation house, Ladprao Soi 11 from now on till 18 November).

We will arrange a van for those who need transportation. There will be an expense of 800
bath per round trip, as we need to hire the van for 3 days.

Khadiravana is a Tibetan retreat center and a place for learning Tibetan/Himalayan art
and wisdom. It is located at Makhasisong village, Nongplub district, Hua-Hin, Prachuab
Khirikhan province, about 250 kilometers south of Bangkok.

Please contact us by 15 November at 1000tara@gmail.com; Mobiles: 086 977 5867, 081
303 6116. There are no registration fees.

Program

Saturday 21 November 2009
10:00 hrs. Arrive at Khadiravana
10:30 Overview of Tibetan earth house and
how to make it
11:30 Lunch
12:30 Building work starts*
15:00 Break
16:00 Building continued
18:00 Evaluation of the first day's work; leisure
walk
19:00 Dinner
20:00 Slide presentation of Tibetan life and
earth houses
21:30 Sweet dreams

Sunday 22 November 2009
6:00 hrs. Meditation
7:00 Breakfast
8:00 Earth building
10:00 Break
12:00 Lunch
13:00 Earth building
15:30 Refreshments; Evaluation of the second day's work
16:00 Donate warm clothes to villagers
18:00 Wild elephant trip
19:00 Dinner
20:30 Retire early to recharge energy for the next day

Monday 23 November 2009
6:00 hrs. Meditation
7:00 Breakfast
8:00 Earth building
10:00 Short break
12:00 Lunch
13:00 Building
15:30 Refreshments; Evaluation of the entire building work
16:30 Return to Bangkok

*There will be a big tent at the building site to protect us from strong sun.

Three storied house in Tibet. The first earth house at Khadiravana will be an adapted style, one
story high and three rooms.

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